Java Technical Lead

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Euroclear UK and International (EUI) is embarking on an exciting multi-year business transformation programme, with technology change at its heart.  Group Business Solutions (GBS) is the Euroclear entity that provides technology delivery services to EUI and is currently in the early stages of delivering a modern, Java microservice-based implementation to replace the existing platform.  The new platform will utilise Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes, under the management of the OpenShift container platform and will adhere to the strategy of developing “cloud-ready” microservices, suitable for a potential future migration to the public cloud.

GBS seeks a talented Java Technical Lead to help drive high-quality technical solutions, whilst mentoring and developing more junior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the creation of a new team of IT professionals and providing technical leadership

• Leading delivery of a coherent end-to-end IT solution that meets both functional and non-functional requirements

• Working as part of an Agile development team to deliver the migration of the legacy application to a new event-based and service-oriented architecture solution, working in collaboration with the Solution Architect, Engineering Lead and other stakeholders

• Ensuring that the IT solution complies with the Enterprise engineering and architecture standards.

• Ensuring end-to-end consistency of solution delivery across platforms and teams by, for instance, organising walkthroughs of the solution with delivery teams.

• Ensuring that the solution meets guidelines and standards for design and development

• Undertaking hands-on development and providing technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to your team members 

• Potential for line management

Qualifications

Crucial Candidate Traits:

The successful candidate will have previously performed a technical lead role and have strong demonstrable solutions design and development skills.

Technical Skills:

The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience of:

• Core Java development (at least 7 years of industry experience) and common frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Developing services/micro-services in Java

• Event driven architecture and messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ…)

• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes …)

• Object-Oriented design

• Developing and deploying on Unix or Linux

• Profiling and performance tuning

• Testing tools and frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, etc.)

• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

• Database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, etc.)

Soft Skills:

• Strong technical leadership and organisational skills.

• Strong interpersonal effectiveness and communication skills.

• Effective and creative problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve issues or identify the correct internal resources to assist.

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

• A willingness to learn and share knowledge.

• A results-oriented and can-do attitude and able to work against tight deadlines.

• A passion for innovation and technology.

Nice-to-have:

The following are not essential but would be a plus if the candidate can demonstrate any experience of:

• Database design skills in technologies such as Oracle

• Hibernate

• Splunk

• DevOps principles, processes and tooling

• IBM MQ

• Angular

• Messaging Standards, for example ISO 15022, ISO 20022 and JSON

• Working in Financial Services or other regulated environment

• Line management